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...could not flourish here, where we have more material and better accommodations for winter work. Even if the formation of a second eight be thought impracticable, the selection of a university "four" from the unsuccessful candidates for the university would still be possible and have almost as much effect in stimulating interest in rowing as the more extended plan. In any case we feel that a boom in rowing here would be an excellent thing, even now, when we have been most successful in this branch of athletics, and we would earnestly urge the boat club to give careful consideration...
...Oxford undergraduates are preparing to give a representation of the Birds of Aristophanes. If the difficulties in the presentation of this play are overcome the effect must be very showy and impressive...
...allow. The crowning point is reached, however, when it boldly states that "four minutes before the time had expired, Mr. Peace declared the game finished, " when "it seemed as if Yale must make a touchdown, so near was the ball to the goal line." This plain statement to the effect that Mr. Peace cheated, would, from any other source than a Yale paper, be deemed a gross and inexcusable insult. It would hardly seem possible that any paper published by college men could make such an assertion. All that can be said is Yale ! It is the natural out-come...
...held and steadily growing. Moreover, it is our opinion that the present form of the marking system in use at Harvard is the very worst form that is anywhere in use. The subdivision of marks and impracticable distinctions employed at Harvard in many cases, are undeniably evil in their effect. The scale of 10 in use at many colleges or even of 5 in use at Amherst we believe is far preferable. The system is a relic of the educational methods formerly in vogue at this as well as all other colleges, but now with us in all other departments...
...different from those which govern the choice of members to our house of representatives. It is not necessary that a candidate should reside in the district which he desires to represent, nor indeed that he should have had any previous connection with it either in business or otherwise. The effect of this system is that the nation is represented in parliament by the best men which it has produced. If a member well qualified by experience and political sagacity and in every way worthy of the confidence of the people, loses his seat, he immediately repairs to another district...